NYSE:NVS - Novartis Stock Price, Forecast & News

Novartis trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "NVS."

Novartis announced an annual dividend on Thursday, January 31st. Investors of record on Tuesday, March 5th will be given a dividend of $2.8646 per share on Wednesday, March 13th. This represents a dividend yield of 3.27%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, March 4th. This is a positive change from Novartis's previous annual dividend of $2.33. View Novartis' Dividend History.

Novartis AG (NYSE:NVS) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 22nd. The company reported $1.41 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.31 by $0.10. The firm had revenue of $12.17 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $11.67 billion. Novartis had a return on equity of 20.86% and a net margin of 24.43%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 10.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.32 earnings per share. View Novartis' Earnings History.

Novartis is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 29th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Novartis.

9 analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Novartis' stock. Their forecasts range from $79.16 to $105.00. On average, they anticipate Novartis' share price to reach $91.67 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for Novartis.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Novartis in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 1 hold rating and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Novartis.

Media headlines about NVS stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Novartis earned a media sentiment score of 0.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Novartis.

Novartis saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 29th, there was short interest totalling 2,900,000 shares, an increase of 10.7% from the November 14th total of 2,620,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,720,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.7 days. Approximately 0.1% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Novartis' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Novartis include Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Roche Holdings AG Basel (RHHBY), Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK), Pfizer (PFE), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Novo Nordisk A/S (NVO), AbbVie (ABBV), AstraZeneca (AZN), Sanofi (SNY), Eli Lilly And Co (LLY), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CSLLY), Celgene (CELG) and Bayer (BAYRY).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Novartis investors own include Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Walt Disney (DIS), AbbVie (ABBV), Pfizer (PFE), AT&T (T), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC), NVIDIA (NVDA), Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) and Verizon Communications (VZ).

Novartis' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.36%), State Street Corp (0.12%), Schafer Cullen Capital Management Inc (0.12%), Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (0.11%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.11%) and Boston Partners (0.08%).

NVS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Boston Partners, Eagle Asset Management Inc., Schafer Cullen Capital Management Inc, Thomasville National Bank, Carillon Tower Advisers Inc., Manning & Napier Group LLC, Stifel Financial Corp and SG Americas Securities LLC.

NVS stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Point72 Asset Management L.P., Fisher Asset Management LLC, Voloridge Investment Management LLC, Renaissance Group LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, Voya Investment Management LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc. and Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC.

Shares of NVS can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of NVS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $92.99.

Novartis has a market capitalization of $213.11 billion and generates $51.90 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $12.61 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.09 on an earnings per share basis. Novartis employs 125,161 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Novartis.

The official website for Novartis is http://www.novartis.com/.

Novartis' mailing address is LICHTSTRASSE 35, BASEL V8, CH 4056. The company can be reached via phone at 011-41-61-324-1111 or via email at [email protected]